Word: shields
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Each school will be allowed to enter three men, in each event and the meeting will be open to all members of schools who are under twenty-one. A solid silver shield is offered for the school scoring the most points, which shall be held each year by the school making the best record. At the end of nine years, the school which has won it the greatest number of times will be presented with the shield. There will be a team race between Hopkinson and Roxbury Latin, and the other events (all scratch) will be as follows: Forty yards...
...evening. The pole vault and standing high jump were the only events competed for, and were both won by W. B. Hyler. The number of points he has made does not however reach that of Shead, who becomes the winner of the series and the recipient of a handsome shield...
Hopkinson School came out victorious, scoring 23 points and thus won the silver shield for the ensuing year. Roxbury Latin was second with 19 points, and Brookline High came third with 10 points. The most interesting race of the day was the mile team race between Hopkinson and Roxbury Latin. Roxbury was ahead at the end of the first quarter, but later the Hopkinson boys forged ahead and won handily...
...schools of the Interscholastic Association was in 1890, when a banner was presented to the school winning the greatest number of points. Last year Hopkinson and Roxbury Latin schools each won the same number of points and so a cup was given to each school. A silver shield is now offered, upon which the name of the winning school will be inscribed each year. At the end of six years, the school, which has won it the greatest number of times, shall claim it as its property. The Interscholastic Association consists of twenty schools and nearly all of them have...
...engraving by Mr. Cole of a work by each accompanies the text. Another paper of unique interest is Mrs. Joseph Pennell's description of A "Water Tournament" at Martigues, in the south of France, a sport which partakes of the nature of a joust, with lance and shield, from elevated perches at the prows of boats, with a background of Provencal pageantry. The illustrations are by Mr. Pennell...